When we talk about Abood Al-Sawafi, we do not talk about a corrupt person appointed by mistake or by “wastta” (illegitimate favor) as the Vice-Chancellor of A’Sharqiyah University in Oman for several years and then he was sacked for his incompetence, thievery, forgery, fraud, and corruption. We are talking, in fact, about a “corruption model” whose attitudes, actions and behaviors need to be analysed and studied in order to help fight corruption in businesses and higher education institutions and pinpoint such nasty examples of corruption everywhere in the world.
Abood Al-Sawafi is not like “another human being” whom we meet in our life or career life and then to be left alone after being caught or sacked. Abood Al-Sawafi represents a corruption model which is more vicious and more dangerous than the COVID-19 pandemic. In order to fight corruption, we need to learn lessons from his wrong appointment, his disastrous actions, the unprecedented trail of destruction he has left in many institutions.